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ذاق
to taste /ˈðaː.qa/
verbB2#3760 most common
Also: to experience, to sample
Example sentences
ذاقَ الطِّفلُ العسلَ.
The child tasted the honey.
ذُقتُ الطعامَ فوجدتُه لذيذاً.
I tasted the food and found it delicious.
لم يذُق شيئاً منذ الصباحِ.
He hasn't tasted anything since morning.
ذاقَ طعمَ الهزيمةِ لأولِ مرةٍ في حياتِه.
He tasted the bitterness of defeat for the first time in his life.
ذاقوا الأمرَّينِ في سبيلِ تحقيقِ حلمِهم.
They suffered greatly (tasted the two bitter things) in pursuit of their dream.
مَن ذاقَ عرفَ، ومَن جرَّبَ اعتبرَ.
He who has tasted knows, and he who has experienced takes heed.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أذوقُ | ذُقتُ | سأذوقُ |
| 2sg | تذوقُ | ذُقتَ | ستذوقُ |
| 3sg | يذوقُ | ذاقَ | سيذوقُ |
| 1pl | نذوقُ | ذُقنا | سنذوقُ |
| 2pl | تذوقون | ذُقتم | ستذوقون |
| 3pl | يذوقون | ذاقوا | سيذوقون |
Word family
ذوقtaste, sense of taste, good taste
مذاقflavor, taste of something
تذوّقto savor, to taste deliberately
ذوّاقةa gourmet, a connoisseur
أذاقto make someone taste, to inflict suffering on
Etymology
The verb comes from the Semitic triliteral root ذ-و-ق (dh-w-q), whose core sense is the physical act of tasting. It is a hollow verb: the middle radical و surfaces as a long ا in the past tense (ذاق) and returns as و in the present (يذوق). From early usage it also carried a figurative sense of experiencing something, especially hardship, a pattern already present in classical and Quranic Arabic.
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